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| Thread ID: 101153 | 2009-07-03 05:01:00 | Can't remove partial watermark in Word 2000 | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 788439 | 2009-07-03 05:01:00 | Hi Team I have a 26 page report that I had to supply to a client who requested that it be watermarked as 'draft' form, so after much effort I finally managed to insert "draft" in the background. I now need to remove that watermark for the final version, and I thought I had done so successfully but found that removal had popped up a remnant 'DR' that had been hiding behind the successful version ever since my earlier struggles to insert it. Problem now is that I can't find any means of 'activating' this insertion to delete or otherwise remove these two letters. I recall that all this operates from the header and footer, and I also remember having huge problems finding the "word art" toolbar when I originally set it up, but this must be one of the most obscure functions in Word 2000 because I'm stuffed if I can make any progress. I have spent hours searching the Word help files and the web for an answer but can't find anything that helps, most of the web hits are either too cryptic for me, assume greater knowledge and familiarity that I possess, or refer to later or earlier versions of Word. I'd dump it into Metapad then copy it back to Word, but there is so much special formatting and so many images that it would probably take me a day to rebuild it. For what its worth, I just noticed that it doesn't appear on the first page! Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers Billy 8-{) :help: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 788440 | 2009-07-03 05:26:00 | Have you tried working through These MS suggestions (office.microsoft.com) Edited: as for not being able to "activate" the Dr - is there any other wording/ Graphics that may be overlaying the box, if there is moving the graphic may allow it to activate. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 788441 | 2009-07-03 07:09:00 | What about copying and pasting into a new word doc? | the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 788442 | 2009-07-03 08:34:00 | Have you tried working through These MS suggestions (office.microsoft.com) Edited: as for not being able to "activate" the DR - is there any other wording/ Graphics that may be overlaying the box, if there is moving the graphic may allow it to activate. Nothing was overlaying, just the document text, though of course there was originally the full word 'DRAFT' but I deleted that. All those MS references are for Word 2003 and Word 2000 doesn't look anything like that. Interestingly it does not print with DR showing, but I have to email the document so I can't leave it the way it is. I am now working on a blank page I added at the end of the doc (not the original doc of course, but a copy. I'm not that stupid, at least I haven't been since I last buggered up a day's work, and this one is two weeks work!! With this I don't have the distraction of text or images getting in the way. When I run the mouse cursor over it there is no indication that anything is there at all, and if I click "view header and footer" it disappears completely. I've looked at every setting I can find and nothing enables it for editing in any way at all, not even font size changes. Obviously it auto-inserts on every new page but I can't even find a control that enabled that! There has to be a control somewhere but I have no idea where MS, in their infinite wisdom, has hidden it. Cheers Billy 8-{) :dogeye: Those whom the Gods would drive mad, they first introduce to computers....... |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 788443 | 2009-07-03 09:29:00 | What about copying and pasting into a new word doc? Well, I tried that earlier and it didn't make any difference at all, in fact I was actually working on the copy when I started this thread, but after your suggestion I decided to try again. This time I copied over just 5 pages at a time to see if I could narrow down where the problem was hidden. That worked fine for the first 20 pages so I then did the last six one at a time to see which of them had the problem, and to my surprise they all copied over perfectly! I have no idea what was wrong, but I'm not going to argue with a successful outcome. Thanks to all for the advise, if anybody has any ideas as to why this should have worked I'd be interested to hear them, but for now it is time to get on with the job again. Cheers Billy 8-{) :thumbs: I've bookmarked that article you just linked as well thanks WT, it looks useful. |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 788444 | 2009-07-03 09:29:00 | I've looked at every setting I can find and nothing enables it for editing in any way at all, not even font size changes. Obviously it auto-inserts on every new page but I can't even find a control that enabled that! Only a guess, as I personally dont have word 2000 on anything - its to old, and without the document or being able to duplicate the problem, bit hard to "experiment". But going by This article (articles.techrepublic.com.com) ( which is prob telling you how to suck eggs as the saying goes)( no Offense meant) I would assume the Drawing toolbar is visible ?? If it can be highlighted - while not a "real Solution" change it to white - at least that way it shouldn't show on the page. :D Edited: See if the first answer On this forum (forums.techguy.org) helps at all. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 788445 | 2009-07-03 10:25:00 | I do remember that word "remembers" every thing, such as image resizing, picture editing. That's why file sizes can get so big. | the_bogan (9949) | ||
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